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[Venice Review] On the Milky Road

Serbian director Emir Kusturica, once a revered name on the arthouse European scene, is back in the helmer's chair with On the Milky Road. His return to fiction...

[TIFF Review] Free Fire

TIFF’s Colin Geddes was correct when introducing Ben Wheatley’s bottle episode of a film Free Fire with the words: “This will wake you up.” The gunfire alone ri...

[TIFF Review] Burn Your Maps

Many films deal with the aftermath of a family death by becoming about how their characters live with the pain -- it changing them into different people. Some d...

[TIFF Review] The Fixer

Some people can't help themselves from striving to be the best whether that means winning a contest, getting a promotion, earning accolades, or proving you're t...

[TIFF Review] Werewolf

Writer/director Ashley McKenzie's feature debut Werewolf picks up right where her 2012 short When You Sleep left off. We're back in Canadian squalor on the pove...

[TIFF Review] Little Wing

The director of Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?, the hilarious 2014 Oscar nominee for Best Short Film, is back with her sophomore feature narrative Little...

[TIFF Review] Zoology

For a way in, maybe we can detect that Zoology writer-director Ivan I. Tverdovsky is a fan of sad-boy rock star Morrissey, because the first ten to fifteen minu...

[TIFF Review] Zacma: Blindness

The roles have been reversed for Julia Brystygier (Maria Mamona), the once powerful colonel in the USSR's Ministry. She interrogated countless enemies of the st...

[TIFF Review] The Death of Louis XIV

A fair question to ask: why The Sun King now? Perhaps American icons are always ripe for deconstruction as, after all, we have the world’s greatest (or rather d...